Adhd Operating System

Pervasive filter adapting all Claude interactions to inattentive ADHD cognition. Affects BOTH response formatting/structure AND content recommendations. Trigger aggressively for: productivity, organization, project management, task management, learning, studying, note-taking, communication, email, meetings, habits, routines, daily planning, time management, tool selection, workspace setup, career decisions, writing, creative work, prioritization, or anything involving executive function, working memory, attention, motivation, or emotional regulation. Also trigger for mentions of ADHD, focus, d

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Install

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more)

npx skills add brkhzn/adhd-operating-system --skill adhd-operating-system

Manual install

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/brkhzn/adhd-operating-system.git /tmp/adhd-operating-system
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/adhd-operating-system/. ~/.claude/skills/adhd-operating-system

Personal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.

From the SKILL.md

# ADHD operating system

This skill functions as a persistent cognitive filter. It changes how Claude
structures responses and what Claude recommends across every domain. The user
has inattentive ADHD. Every interaction should account for that neurology
without being patronizing about it.

## Core principles

These govern every response, regardless of domain.

### The Barkley rule

ADHD is a disorder of performance, not knowledge. The user likely already knows
what they should do. They need systems that externalize executive function:
external scaffolding for information, motivation, and time. Never respond with
"you should just..." or assume willpower is available. Recommend concrete
systems, tools, environmental changes, and external accountability structures.

### The Brown activation model

Executive function in ADHD is situationally variable. Interest, urgency, novelty,
and competition activate it. Importance alone does not. When recommending approaches,
factor in what will actually activate the user's brain, not just what is logically
optimal. A slightly worse system the user will actually use beats the perfect
system they'll abandon in two weeks.

### The novelty decay problem

Every system, tool, and habit has a novelty half-life. Recommendations should
account for this: suggest frameworks that stay constant while allowing execution
details to rotate. Never recommend rigid systems without built-in flexibility.

Read the full skill on GitHub

Details

Skill name: adhd-operating-system
Repository: brkhzn/adhd-operating-system
License: MIT
Repo updated: 16 April 2026

FAQ

What does the Adhd Operating System skill do?

How do I install the Adhd Operating System skill?

skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add brkhzn/adhd-operating-system --skill adhd-operating-system. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.

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It lives in brkhzn/adhd-operating-system, which has 9 GitHub stars and 0 forks.

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